In 2006, a celestial body attracted the attention of astronomers to the fact that the nucleus of the comet began to break down.
Astronomers from the web Slooh Observatory has photographed comet 73P when it flew past Earth and found that it started to fall apart. A heavenly body is unlikely to survive the next rendezvous with the Sun or Jupiter, the press service of the organization.
“In the coming months, the comet will be more likely to be at risk. In mid-March, it is closer to the Sun, and then begin the journey back to the Kingdom of Jupiter. Closer to the Sun this year and with Jupiter in 2025, if she survives the meeting with the guru, put – 73P action of powerful gravitational forces of stars and planets-giant. It seems that they have already started to split it in half,” said Paul Cox from Slooh Observatory.
Comet 73P was discovered by German astronomers Arnold Swissmanim and Arno Womancom in 1930, and until the beginning of this Millennium, it attracted the attention of scientists.
In 2006, a celestial body attracted the attention of astronomers to the fact that the nucleus of the comet began to break down. First small pieces, as shown by the analysis of archival data, split from him in 1995, and by 2006, experts recorded eight fairly large fragments of the comet moving in parallel with it. Analysis of the comet showed that it could completely collapse in this century.
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